Experience Required: Minimum 2 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Industry: Gaming / Game Development

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Game Designer to join our team and work on the design of a new cross-platform multiplayer strategy game for Web, Android, and iOS.

The game is based on an existing physical financial strategy board game and is being transformed into an immersive digital experience involving stock trading, portfolio management, market events, strategy, multiplayer competition, and interactive game mechanics.

The ideal candidate must have at least 2 years of professional experience working in a gaming company and a minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in game design .

Key Responsibilities

- Design the complete game flow, rules, mechanics, and player experience.
- Convert existing physical board-game mechanics into an engaging digital game.
- Design multiplayer game sessions, player actions, turns, events, rewards, scoring, and progression.
- Design card-based mechanics, market events, trading mechanics, portfolio systems, and game economy.
- Create and maintain a detailed Game Design Document (GDD) .
- Define game states, player journeys, interaction flows, edge cases, and system behaviour.
- Balance gameplay, probabilities, rewards, risks, difficulty, and match duration.
- Design tutorials, onboarding, practice modes, and player guidance.
- Work closely with game developers, UI/UX designers, 3D artists, animators, QA, and product teams.
- Design game experiences suitable for Web, Android, and iOS .
- Suggest animations, visual feedback, sound cues, and interactions that make the gameplay more engaging.
- Continuously test, analyse, and improve gameplay based on player behaviour and feedback.

Mandatory Requirements




- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a gaming company.
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience as a Game Designer.
- Strong understanding of game mechanics, systems design, game balancing, player psychology, and game economy.
- Experience designing strategy games, board games, card games, simulation games, multiplayer games, or similar system-driven games .
- Experience preparing professional GDDs, game-flow documents, wireframes, and developer-ready specifications.
- Strong understanding of multiplayer game flows and player interaction.
- Ability to convert complex rules into straightforward and enjoyable player experiences.
- Good understanding of mobile-game UX and cross-platform game design.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Figma, multiplayer architecture, analytics, live-game systems, or web-based games will be an advantage.

Experience with financial, trading, simulation, tycoon, economy, or educational games would also be beneficial, but is not mandatory.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who is not only good at making a game look interesting, but who understands what makes a game enjoyable, competitive, balanced, understandable, and replayable .

The candidate should be capable of thinking through questions such as:

What can the player do? What decisions should they make? What happens after every action? How do other players react? How do we maintain excitement throughout the match? How do we make a complex system easy to understand?

Portfolio Requirement

Candidates must share a portfolio or details of games they have worked on , clearly mentioning their individual role and contribution to the game design.

Candidates without professional game-design experience will not be considered.

📌 Game Designer | Multiplayer Strategy & Digital Board Games (Kolkata)
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